Comments on: site updates ahoy!

By: Steevo

Steevo — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:51:33 +0000

I think the new theme looks beautiful! The green linkies are cool as they are– a good match. Do we need a separate high-contrast mode? And you emulate Google by using this font, of course, but Trebuchet and others certainly have more flair. So what’s my silly complaint? Too bad that forms adopt system color for the text in fields, which in my case is white, so I have to type, then highlight to see what I wrote. Why don’t I just use default colors? I’m obstinate that way (and want to see what things do when not the default).

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:22:59 +0000

Brad: Yeah, I’m not a fan of the font either. I’m open to suggestions.

I would have fiddled with it myself last night (starting from the old theme’s Trebuchet/Lucida Grande combination), but it didn’t seem worth it after dorking around with the sidebar until midnight.

In truth, I’m not super keen on the green link color, either. My inner low-vision user keeps yelling at me about it. Still, I don’t want to go back to boring boredom, so it’ll take some tweaking to get the right balance.

By: Brad Fults

Brad Fults — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:31:07 +0000

I dig the theme, though I’m not a big fan of the font.

Looking forward to the other additions!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:07:23 +0000

Phase 1 (moving to a new theme) is complete, at least as far as the newer parts of the site are concerned. I still have some work to do, mostly getting the photos, book, and such looking like the new theme.

Let me know if you find anything amiss.

By: nate

nate — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:59:17 +0000

Good choice on the theme.